12 No Sugar
Year 12
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Native Settlements Map
Moore River Native Settlement
- Provides information on the establishment of the settlement in response to WA legislation.
Bringing Them Home Report
- Report of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families.
Legislation
- Arguably, the Aborigines 1905 Act (WA) has had the most significant impact on Noongar people, an impact that lasted well into the 1960s and 70s.
- "An act to make provision for the better protection and care of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Western Australia."
- For persons of mixed descent, who primarily lived in the southwest of the State, the Act had a profound impact. It enabled the removal of anyone deemed “Aboriginal native” to a Reserve and any child under 16 deemed “Aboriginal native” to a State institution.
- Following the successful passage of the 1905 Aborigines Act, members of the Western Australian Parliament felt that the state's honour had been restored. Believing adequate provision
had been made for the 'protection and care' of Aborigines, they turned their attention to more pressing matters of state. - For much of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, public policies for Western Australia’s Indigenous peoples were guided by beliefs that they were remnants of a race in terminal decline and that a public duty existed to protect and preserve them. If their extinction was unavoidable, the public duty was to ease their passing.
Unhealthy Government Experiment
Perkins, R. (Producer), & Cole, B. (Director). (2008). Unhealthy government experiment [Television series episode]. In H. Pankhurst (Producer), First Australians. Sydney, Australia: SBS.
Summary: Jandamarra is born on a cattle station in the Kimberley in the 1970's. He trades life as a police tracker or resistance with his own people. Gladys Gilligan is one of more than 50,000 half-caste children plucked from her family and sent to a mission. Despite the efforts of the Chief Protector of Aborigines, AO Neville, she remains resolutely independant.